Re: Broken-by-design USB device?

2001-01-02 Thread Nick Hibma
The panic is definitely bad. It happens straight after failing the attach? If you could recompile the kernel with options DDB makeoptions DEBUG=-g plug the device in again, and after it has panicked (it will drop into the debugger), type trace. That would give me a

Re: Silent FreeBSD

2001-01-02 Thread Kevin Way
To solve this problem, I invested in one large, fast, fileserver and then ran the noise-critical machines diskless, with PXE boot. To deal with the noise of the fileserver, I bought an enclosed rack. My previous solutions which did an admirable job, were to: a) purchase the overly expensive,

Re: Broken-by-design USB device?

2001-01-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 30-Dec-00 Nick Hibma wrote: For identifying what this is, there's not a lot of info available. It shows up in Windows as a "Monster Gamepad" with 4 analog axis and 16 buttons, and just has a single 20 pin DIPP chip inside with these markings (looks like a PLA to me): CY7C63000A-PC

Re: OT: silence as an answer? (was: how to test out cron.c changes?)

2001-01-02 Thread Gerhard Sittig
[ this message is no personal affront against you, Doug, but an expression of what feeling this kind of behaviour causes for those who want to share and find themselves ignored ] On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 18:06 -0800, Doug Barton wrote: Gerhard Sittig wrote: [ ... reminder after two weeks of

Re: how to test out cron.c changes? (was: cvs commit: src/etc crontab)

2001-01-02 Thread Gerhard Sittig
On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 18:06 -0800, Doug Barton wrote: Speaking only for myself, I don't think your proposed changes are a good idea, which is why I refrained from offering any suggestions on how you can test them. Your refusal(id?) has been the only response so far and it didn't sound

Re: OT: silence as an answer? (was: how to test out cron.c changes?)

2001-01-02 Thread Neil Blakey-Milner
On Tue 2001-01-02 (12:52), Gerhard Sittig wrote: On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 18:06 -0800, Doug Barton wrote: Gerhard Sittig wrote: [ ... reminder after two weeks of silence ... ] Two weeks of silence is generally enough to let you know that no one is interested in this modification.

Reprobing the ATAPI bus.

2001-01-02 Thread Josef Karthauser
Does anyone know how to reprobe the ATAPI bus, e.g. for a cd rom drive in a laptop that wasn't present during boot? Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Reprobing the ATAPI bus.

2001-01-02 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Josef Karthauser wrote: Does anyone know how to reprobe the ATAPI bus, e.g. for a cd rom drive in a laptop that wasn't present during boot? Yes :) Most of the code is already in the ATA driver, but the ioctl's and the atacontrol program is still only here in my lab due to lack of

Re: ARP question.

2001-01-02 Thread Julian Elischer
Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Félix-Antoine Paradis [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010101 23:28] wrote: Hi, When we do a "dmesg" on a 4.2-STABLE box, we get: arp: 200.42.126.18 moved from 00:e0:7d:7b:53:f0 to 00:c0:df:f4:ac:05 on ed0 and, in ifconfig, it says: ed0:

Re: SecureBSD

2001-01-02 Thread Alexey Dokuchaev
On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Wes Peters wrote: You may want to look at http://www.trustedbsd.org/ as well. It is provided under the Berkeley license, and much of what is developed there will be folded into FreeBSD as time permits. The primary author of TrustedBSD is Robert Watson, who is now a

Re: Reprobing the ATAPI bus.

2001-01-02 Thread Josef Karthauser
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 03:50:34PM +0100, Soren Schmidt wrote: It seems Josef Karthauser wrote: Does anyone know how to reprobe the ATAPI bus, e.g. for a cd rom drive in a laptop that wasn't present during boot? Yes :) Most of the code is already in the ATA driver, but the ioctl's and

Re: Reprobing the ATAPI bus.

2001-01-02 Thread Daryl Chance
That could look/get ugly. if ( retval == -1 ) { // blah } hehe ;P - Daryl Chance | And which parallel universe did ValueData, LLC | YOU crawl out of? Memphis, TN| - http://www.thinkgeek.com - Original Message - From: "Josef Karthauser" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: Reprobing the ATAPI bus.

2001-01-02 Thread Josef Karthauser
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 10:22:02AM -0600, Daryl Chance wrote: That could look/get ugly. if ( retval == -1 ) { // blah } hehe ;P He only gets paid if it conforms to style(9) Heh :b. Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in

Re: ARP question.

2001-01-02 Thread Wes Peters
Félix-Antoine Paradis wrote: Hi, When we do a "dmesg" on a 4.2-STABLE box, we get: arp: 200.42.126.18 moved from 00:e0:7d:7b:53:f0 to 00:c0:df:f4:ac:05 on ed0 This means exactly what is says: IP address 200.42.126.18 was originally associated with ethernet MAC address ...:53:f0, but

Re: Reprobing the ATAPI bus.

2001-01-02 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Josef Karthauser wrote: He only gets paid if it conforms to style(9) Heh :b. Just forget about it then, and be patient :) -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT

2001-01-02 Thread mouss
At 20:29 29/12/00 +0100, Marco van de Voort wrote: Perfect for your purposes. I, as user (and with some machines running on FreeBSD), want to be able to rebuild the kernel at any time, and fix myself when needed. I don't want any binary packages that can cause trouble and delay days. before

Problems with FreeBSD 4.2

2001-01-02 Thread Joe . Warner
Hi, I installed FreeBSD 4.2 on my home PC last week and everything installed fine except for the desktop managers. When I tried to install KDE, I got the following errors: Add of package xpm-3.4k aborted, error code 1- Please check the debug screen for more info acd0: READ_BIG_MEDIUM ERROR

Re: Reprobing the ATAPI bus.

2001-01-02 Thread Josef Karthauser
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 05:54:34PM +0100, Soren Schmidt wrote: It seems Josef Karthauser wrote: He only gets paid if it conforms to style(9) Heh :b. Just forget about it then, and be patient :) Oh go on then :) I'll pay you anyway :). Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: ARP question.

2001-01-02 Thread Félix-Antoine Paradis
At 09:47 01-01-02 -0700, you wrote: Félix-Antoine Paradis wrote: Hi, When we do a "dmesg" on a 4.2-STABLE box, we get: arp: 200.42.126.18 moved from 00:e0:7d:7b:53:f0 to 00:c0:df:f4:ac:05 on ed0 This means exactly what is says: IP address 200.42.126.18 was originally associated

kernel debugging suggestion needed

2001-01-02 Thread Zhiui Zhang
I have written a KLD and am debugging it. The program often hangs after runs for a while (I guess it enters into some dead loop). Is there a way to attach to the process and somehow find out which code it is executing (with remote debugging or ddb)? Thanks for your help. -Zhihui To

Problems with sf driver?

2001-01-02 Thread Neff_Glen
I administer a box running v4.2-stable with a pair of the Adaptec ANA-62044 64-bit PCI, Quad port ethernet adapters. Six of the eight ethernet ports are in use. The box routes traffic between five private networks and provides NAT services out the public world on the sixth interface. I

Re: Problems with sf driver?

2001-01-02 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010102 10:17] wrote: I administer a box running v4.2-stable with a pair of the Adaptec ANA-62044 64-bit PCI, Quad port ethernet adapters. Six of the eight ethernet ports are in use. The box routes traffic between five private networks and provides NAT

Re: Broken-by-design USB device?

2001-01-02 Thread Jon Simola
On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Nick Hibma wrote: The panic is definitely bad. It happens straight after failing the attach? Yep, but only during the kernel boot. Hot plugging the device after the system is booted spews the same errors to the console but does not cause a panic: uhid0: no report

Re: how to test out cron.c changes? (was: cvs commit: src/etc cr

2001-01-02 Thread John Baldwin
On 02-Jan-01 Gerhard Sittig wrote: On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 18:06 -0800, Doug Barton wrote: Speaking only for myself, I don't think your proposed changes are a good idea, which is why I refrained from offering any suggestions on how you can test them. Your refusal(id?) has been the only

Re: OT: silence as an answer? (was: how to test out cron.c changes?)

2001-01-02 Thread Dan Langille
In this message I use the pronoun "you" quite a lot. It does not refer to anyone specifically. It's generic. On 2 Jan 2001, at 12:52, Gerhard Sittig wrote: Silence as I see it is just a sign for "nobody answered", without a reason to see why. You are not alone in this regard. Silence

FreeBSD + Mylex DAC960 (RAID 1) + DEC Prioris HX 6000 Server will not recognize boot record for some reason

2001-01-02 Thread Nathan Vidican
This machine is an Intel Pentium Pro based system, (not a DEC Alpha), it currently has one 200mhz 512K CPU, 196megs RAM, (4 x 32edo simms, 4 x 16edo simms), and two 4.5Gig SCSI disks in hot-swappable drive carriages configured using RAID 1 (mirrored), attached to a Mylex DAC960P/PD dual-channel

Re: ARP question.

2001-01-02 Thread Doug White
Some more fuel... On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, [iso-8859-1] Félix-Antoine Paradis wrote: Hi, When we do a "dmesg" on a 4.2-STABLE box, we get: arp: 200.42.126.18 moved from 00:e0:7d:7b:53:f0 to 00:c0:df:f4:ac:05 on ed0 From personal experience, Linux has this nasty bad habit of broadcasting

Re: kernel debugging suggestion needed

2001-01-02 Thread Doug White
On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Zhiui Zhang wrote: I have written a KLD and am debugging it. The program often hangs after runs for a while (I guess it enters into some dead loop). Is there a way to attach to the process and somehow find out which code it is executing (with remote debugging or ddb)?

Re: kernel debugging suggestion needed

2001-01-02 Thread Andrew R. Reiter
[Sorry for lack of message in this reply but I accidently rm'd the original emails to reply to :-) ] One thing I've done in the past is if it's convenient in a section of code to hijack a function pointer in the kernel, then hijack it so that it will call your code... Silly, and not always

BSD dlopen and such

2001-01-02 Thread Rafael Barrero
Hi all, Two questions: 0) Are native binaries for OpenBSD different from FreeBSD? 1) Can a native binary dlopen a Linux ELF GL, yes or no? Rafael Barrero [EMAIL PROTECTED] "You know ... you take the killing for granted. And then it's gone, and you're like, 'I wish I'd appreciated it more.'

Re: kernel debugging suggestion needed

2001-01-02 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 2 January 2001 at 14:03:16 -0800, Doug White wrote: On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Zhiui Zhang wrote: I have written a KLD and am debugging it. The program often hangs after runs for a while (I guess it enters into some dead loop). Is there a way to attach to the process and somehow find

Re: BSD dlopen and such

2001-01-02 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Rafael Barrero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 0) Are native binaries for OpenBSD different from FreeBSD? Yes. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

help!

2001-01-02 Thread clp
Hi. I have a netgear Ethernet card installed in my computer. In order to reconnect my computer to the internet, I have to reinstall the drivers and they're missing. So, I opened up my computer to look at the Ethernet card and I copied down the necessary numbers. However, I do not know how

Re: kernel debugging suggestion needed

2001-01-02 Thread Zhiui Zhang
On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Doug White wrote: On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Zhiui Zhang wrote: I have written a KLD and am debugging it. The program often hangs after runs for a while (I guess it enters into some dead loop). Is there a way to attach to the process and somehow find out which code it

Re: kernel debugging suggestion needed

2001-01-02 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 2 January 2001 at 23:22:49 -0500, Zhiui Zhang wrote: On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Doug White wrote: On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Zhiui Zhang wrote: I have written a KLD and am debugging it. The program often hangs after runs for a while (I guess it enters into some dead loop). Is there a way

Re: how to test out cron.c changes? (was: cvs commit: src/etc crontab)

2001-01-02 Thread Greg Black
Gerhard Sittig wrote: Is there anyone out there who feels like rejecting the proposal for a *reason*? Or to accept the idea, but to redirect the effort to a "real solution"? I somehow doubt you'd rather explain again and again that cron(8) isn't broken but that users should shuffle around

Re: Boot process robustness

2001-01-02 Thread James Halstead
- Original Message - From: "James Halstead" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Poul-Henning Kamp" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 11:30 PM Subject: Re: Boot process robustness - Original Message - From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Walter W. Hop" [EMAIL

Re: ARP question.

2001-01-02 Thread C. Stephen Gunn
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 02:02:03PM -0800, Doug White wrote: arp: 200.42.126.18 moved from 00:e0:7d:7b:53:f0 to 00:c0:df:f4:ac:05 on ed0 From personal experience, Linux has this nasty bad habit of broadcasting ARPs on all interfaces. For this reason multihomed Linux boxes should be

Re: how to test out cron.c changes? (was: cvs commit: src/etc crontab)

2001-01-02 Thread Michael C . Wu
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 02:38:30PM +1000, Greg Black scribbled: | Gerhard Sittig wrote: | Is there anyone out there who feels like rejecting the proposal | for a *reason*? Or to accept the idea, but to redirect the | effort to a "real solution"? I somehow doubt you'd rather | explain again

Re: how to test out cron.c changes? (was: cvs commit: src/etc cr

2001-01-02 Thread Gerhard Sittig
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 11:36 -0800, John Baldwin wrote: [ manpage diff for cron.c change reasoning ] I must've missed this the first time through. I hoped that silence is not always meant in a negativ way. : See my first message to freebsd-hackers as of December 5th at

TCP Rate-Halving

2001-01-02 Thread Michael C . Wu
[If need be, please add Cc: to -net] While doing my own research project, I came across this piece of information. It seems like a "nobody-has-it-but-it-is-fast" thing. http://www.psc.edu/networking/ftp/papers/draft-ratehalving.txt It seeks to improve the Reno TCP implementation by the most

Re: TCP Rate-Halving

2001-01-02 Thread itojun
Is this specified in the IPv6 specs? Does KAME do this? I don't think so. TCP on IPv6 is exactly the same as TCP on IPv4. only differences I know of are in the following portion: (1) pseudo-header checksum documented in in RFC2460 section 8.1 (2) jumbogram